Last movie you watched......

I saw "Life Itself" the Roger Ebert Documentary.

Amazing.

 

Coke, Junior Mints, monkeys with guns on horses.


Heaven.

 

Caught this in 3D tonight. Can still remember going to see the original films as a kid at a marathon at a drive-in. "Dawn" proved entertaining enough for me so that I will see the next one, too.

 

The image of monkeys with guns riding horses earned my $10 earlier this week. I barely remember seeing the previous movie, but monkeys with guns riding horses was an image that said to me, "Fucking Watch Me!"

 

Saw "Sex Tape" and "The Purge 2" tonight.

The former -- sucked goat balls. Just awful.

The latter -- A better story than the original, in my humble opinion. Average, but after enduring Sex Tape, it was passable.

 

Saw a couple on Netflix streaming this week:

"Battered Bastards of Baseball" -- I knew just a little bit of the Portland Mavericks from Jim Bouton's first "Ball Four" update version, so I was looking forward to this, and I wasn't a bit disappointed. Of course, there was a lot I learned that I didn't know from the "Ball Four" update: Kurt Russel's dad owning the team (and Kurt himself seeing some playing time), and the whole situation of an independent team coming into an affiliated league. It was also a bit of a snapshot of the '70s with a lot of good film footage. The only small problem I had with it was that everyone interviewed seemed to pat themselves on the back a little too much about playing "for the love of the game," but it's just a quibble. Definitely recommended.

"Metallica Through the Never" -- I'm a Metallica fan, so I enjoyed seeing the band playing their hits, and it was a good stage show (don't know if they did all that stuff just for the movie). However, the movie just seemed like an hour-and-a-half version of a music video: A bunch of footage of the band playing wrapped around a bunch of stylistically violent scenes and a storyline that didn't have a real purpose or resolution. Worth the time if you're a fan, but I would have been fine with a straight concert video.

 

Saw two on Friday.
First, in the afternoon, saw an advanced screening of Daniel Radcliffe's new movie, What If. It definitely had romantic comedy cliches, but it was also charming and witty enough to get away with it. If you're looking for a date movie in August, I'd recommend this one.

Friday night we saw Funny Face as part of St. Louis' "Movies in the Park" series. The movie is 47 years old, but I had never seen it before. Once you get past Fred Astaire being 30 years older than Audrey Hepburn, it's actually a fun, sweet musical. Not a great movie, but good for its day.

 

"The Wolf of Wall Street."

Dicaprio is a heck of an actor, but I stopped caring at about the 1:32 mark.

Repeating: No movie should ever go over two hours.

 

Disagree with the last comment. The Lord of the Rings movies, for instance, are all three hours and are all fantastic. There are so many "long" movies that are fabulous. Wolf of Wall Street is one movie that was good at three hours, but could have been great at two hours. At a certain point we get it, you're a greed addict with a drug problem, stop beating us over the head with it.

 

Agreed. That was a fine way to spend 90 minutes. I'm a big fan of Kurt Russell, but I had no idea his dad was the deputy on "Bonanza" much less that he owned a baseball team. It would have been of interest to me since I'm now living in Boise (which always had minor league ball off and on, but in a less pretentious way as the style guide for the current team is to always write "YOUR Boise Hawks" in any release or promotional material).

 

The Legendary Hercules ... I'm a sucker for these movies and they all suck. This one was no exception. Crappy action and even worse special effects - like the lion - and the story moved too fast for the movie.
Crap.
That said .. I'm psyched for the Rock's Hercules movie. Tee the ball up Lucy!

Louis CK Hilarious. It lived up to billing. One of the funniest stand ups I have seen in a long time.

We're the Miller. I wanted to like it. I wanted to laugh. It was too damn long. Jennifer Anniston looked more like a stripper in Horrible Bosses than this movie. Much of the movie was more awkward than funny. And it drug along. Just too long and not enough funny.

 

Under the Skin. Pretty freaky.